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Published : Tuesday 22 November 2022
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Brazenly entertaining. . . . It summons to the page a Broadway voice like no other.Los Angeles Times
[An] erudite and affably self-conscious memoir of the creative process.Vulture
An intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim in a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his lifeconversations that show the composer-lyricist as he has likely never been seen before.
In 2017,New Yorkerstaff writer D.T. Max began working on a major profile of Stephen Sondheim that would be timed to the eventual premiere of a new musical Sondheim was writing. Sadly , that process and the years of conversation was cut short by Sondheims own hesitations, then the global pandemic, and finally by the great artists death in November 2021.
Now, Max has taken the raw version of these conversations and knit them together into an unforgettable work of literature and celebration.Finalereveals Sondheima star who disliked the spotlightat his most relaxed, thoughtful, sardonic, and engaging, as he talks about work, music, movies, family, New York City, aging, the creative process, and much more.
Max brings you into the room and gives you a front row seat fortheir unusual and intimate three-year-long pas de deux. Thetwo bond, spar, separate, and reunite, as Max elicits fromSondheim a candor and vulnerability he seldomdisplayed in public.
This is a unique portrait of an artist in his twilight, offering remarkable insight into the mind and heart of a genius whose work changed American musical theater and popular culture forever.
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